The retraction note explains which images were affected by the manipulation:

The finding of misconduct impacts the main conclusions of this article, specifically, that images used in the article “had been among a set of manipulated images produced while at another institution, which had been found to be false by that institution. ORI found that respondent falsely reported these images in Figs. 1D, 2A, and Supplementary Fig. S1B and S1C” (2).

The note outlines the falsifications as they were reported in the 2014 ORI notice:

Falsely labeled immunoblots in Figs. 1D and 2A as follows:

Figure 1D (bottom panel), representing the total ERK levels in extracts from cells exposed to 15 Gy of gamma radiation for 0–120 minutes, by using results from an unrelated experiment for MAPK levels in extracts from cells exposed to 2, 12, or 20 Gy of gamma irradiation for 1, 5, 20, or 60 minutes

In the version of this article initially published, there are irregularities with the tubulin loading controls in lanes 1 through 4 and with the KSR1 bands in lanes 7 and 8 of Figure 2f. The authors have repeated the experiment and have provided a new figure panel that is now published as part of the correction notices linked to the HTML version and attached to the PDF version of the article. The original figures remain in both online versions of the article. The authors have also made a correction to Supplementary Figure 6b, which has been added to the supplementary file online. H. Rosie Xing does not agree to this correction.

The Nature Medicine paper has been cited 35 times.

We’ve reached out to Molecular Cancer Therapeutics to ask why it took them so long to retract the paper; we could not find contact information for Xing.